I live out of my congregation's territory. However I'm still in contact with someone from my old congregation. He is a MS in that congregation and all of a sudden after almost 2 yrs of us not talking he is being very friendly. I think they've asked him about me and want him to feel me out so to speak before they decide whether or not to come after me. I was very highly regarded in my old congregation and I found out a few months ago that I am still the source of some conversation. I don't have any ties to the org so the may decide I'm not worth the trouble since I stay out of the cong's territory and they would probably have to get another body of elders involved. However, if they do decide I ain't tellin em shit. I don't owe them or anyone else an explanation for the life i live. So fuck em. That's pretty much the way I feel.
Posts by bigboi
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88The coming "disassociations"
by Elsewhere ini have seen several threads about how the elders are going to be going around asking people if they still consider themselves to be jehovah's witnesses.
this will undoubtedly result in multiple da announcements in the coming months.
i'm curious how the average jw will perceive this and respond to it.
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Reality check: World less happy about America
by Pathofthorns infacinating results from a global poll relating to public opinions of america in various countries around the world.. [url] http://www.torontostar.com/nasapp/cs/contentserver?pagename=thestar/layout/article_type1&c=article&cid=1035775217105&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724[/url].
a major survey on international opinion released in washington yesterday shows u.s. popularity has plunged across much of the world amid mounting perceptions that the united states is running roughshod over other nations.
the planet's sole superpower commands only tepid affection, just as the u.s. government struggles to win international support for a possible military incursion against iraq as the next stage in its war on terrorism.. in fact, the prospect of a u.s.-led offensive aimed at overthrowing iraqi dictator saddam hussein has become a major irritant between washington and even its closest allies.. .
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bigboi
Like it or not someone has to be a force on the world stage today. There are many dangers that could threaten the stability of world much smaller than what it was even ten yrs ago. The pro-active stance taken by America may well be distasteful to a world full of sovreign nations having their almost everyday affairs influenced by one country. Yet, in these times it is dangerous for any developed, modernized country to sit on it's laurels and think that troublesome situations in the world can be ignored or thought of as far away. We simply cannot afford to do that. The power, security, peace and prestige we enjoy depends on the stability of the world community. That can extend to the third world in due time if we take care of the situations that at present threaten to destabilize the entire world community. With issues like nuclear proliferation, terrorism and the like we need a strong power that is willing to stand up and lead a world effort to deal with these appropiately.
In doing this we also have to realize that the best interests of all have to be taken into account, while at the same time reconciling that with the old addage that you can't please everybody all of the time. What is best imo, is a world as reasonably free of terror and tyrannical regimes as is humanly possibly.
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Our Mother is in a coma :(
by noidea inkarla and i came home for a quick shower and a change of clothes.
we ask that you keep our mother and our family in your prayers.
we posted a few weeks ago that our mother had been diagnosed with pancreas cancer and was given 6-18 months with chemo.
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bigboi
Noidea,
I offer my most heartfelt condolences for your loss. I wish you and yours all the best.
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Ruby "Hell on Heels " Tuesday
by RubyTuesday in.
type in your name and find out what your mob nick name would be.. http://www.rickmelfi.com/sopranos.html
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bigboi
Bigboi "The Xerox"
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Before and After Pics
by WildTurkey in.
lets post pic before we left the borg and after we left.
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bigboi
Ya'll look a whole lot younger.
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The Question Of The Day Do You Want Eternal Life?
by minimus indo you still hope to live forever?
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bigboi
I wouldn't mind living forever, If I could stay young.
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Who is coloured?
by Defender inthis was written by a black guy in texas .
when i born, i black.
when i grow up, i black.
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bigboi
This was written by Leonard Pitts a writer for the Miami Herald. For some, race is never the answer
It's always the little stuff that turns around to bite you on the backside.
Case in point: A couple of weeks ago, I observed in this space that there is ''different justice in this country for those who are white enough or wealthy enough to afford it.'' I said this en route to a larger point and it never occurred to me that the remark was anything but a self-evident truth, one that required no explanation, much less a defense.
Shows what I know. I've since heard from dozens of white women and men wounded by the contention that their skin color might buy them leniency in the criminal justice system. The influence of wealth, they didn't argue. But about whiteness, they had a conniption. Some even demanded that I produce proof.
From my perspective, it's not unlike being asked to produce proof that fire is hot. But for the record:
According to The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission, African Americans account for 13 percent of all regular drug users, but 35 percent of those arrested for drug possession, 55 percent of those convicted for drug possession and 74 percent of those imprisoned for drug possession. Then there's And Justice For Some, a 2000 study whose sponsors include the U.S. Justice Department itself. Researchers reported that black and Hispanic offenders receive harsher treatment than white ones with similar records at every step of the justice system. To cite just one finding: among kids who have not been in juvenile prisons before, a black defendant in a drug case is a whopping 48 times more likely to be incarcerated than a white one with the same record.
There's more, but you get the point.
I offer these statistics, by the way, only because I was asked and not out of any illusion that they will sway those who find it necessary to think race plays no part in the American justice system. I refuse to believe -- for the sake of my sanity as much as anything -- that they represent the predominant mind-set of my white countrymen and women. But it seems sadly obvious to me that, at the very least, they speak for a sizable minority.
And truth to tell, it's not that such people fail to grasp the racial realities of the justice system that galls me most. Rather, it's the implication of that failure, what it says about the inability or unwillingness of some white people to accept the simple, obvious fact that, where race is concerned, America is a game rigged in their favor.
For the life of me, I can't understand why some people find this so hard to see. I mean, where gender is concerned, the game is rigged in favor of men, with the possible exception of men in divorce courts. The point is not that all men are sexists, but that all benefit from a system that is. For a man to pretend otherwise flies in the face of the apparent. Just as it does for a white person to claim, in a nation with a recent history of racial apartheid, that whiteness does not have its privileges.
Fact is, when it comes to making trouble go away, the only color superior to white is green. Ask O.J.
As the kids say, I'm not mad at'cha. Indeed, one reason I've grown increasingly ambivalent -- not antagonistic, but ambivalent -- toward such issues as reparations and affirmative action is that I've grown increasingly weary of African Americans placing ourselves in positions where happiness depends on persuading white folks to ''do'' . . . whatever. I'll be a happy man the day we decide to place as much of our contentment as possible in our own hands.
But by the same token, I am congenitally unable to pass an absurd contention unremarked. And the claim that race plays no part in justice is precisely that.
It's funny: White people often rightly complain that for too many blacks, everything is about race, always. But they fail to grasp the corollary truth that for too many whites, nothing is about race, ever.
They are quick to condemn black folks' blind spot. Is it too much to ask that they display the same readiness toward their own?
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Who is coloured?
by Defender inthis was written by a black guy in texas .
when i born, i black.
when i grow up, i black.
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bigboi
So are you saying blacks and latinos are typically more violent than whites? Stats are stats and they do prove a point, but I'm not sure that going to jail is "characteristic" of black and latino cultures. It may be a harsh reality, but I also think they are victim to their surroundings and circumstances. I think you'd find an alarming co-relation to uneducation and poor living conditions in all the stats you provided.
Going to jail is characteristic for black and latino young men, unfortunately. What u have to ask is why that is? Is it because black and latino men are more likely to commit crimes than the population in general? Or is it because they are likely to be convicted more often than the population in general. Frankly, I believe it's the latter. More later,
Edited by - bigboi on 30 November 2002 21:25:58
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Who is coloured?
by Defender inthis was written by a black guy in texas .
when i born, i black.
when i grow up, i black.
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bigboi
It wasn't idealistic mumbo-jumbo, bigboi. There is only one person whose attitude you can change. Anything else is wishful thinking.
Comf, ur old. What a way to squash youthful, inexperienced activism.
I see what your saying, although I don't agree with it completely. I think u can help ppl to change their attitudes, although they are the only ones who can do it.
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Who is coloured?
by Defender inthis was written by a black guy in texas .
when i born, i black.
when i grow up, i black.
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Bigboi, we can't change other people, but we can make it so in ourselves as individuals. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and all that
Race involves changing ppl or at least getting them to look at things in ways that they aren't normally accustomed too. Relations between ppl of different races is a two way street. It makes no difference if only one side is willing to adopt a different viewpoint. Not wishin for confrontation Comf, cause I think ur a good guy, but imo, it's time to get rid of all of the idealistic mumbo jumbo and have real honest, earnest interchange about the subject.